Australian Children Given Gender Sensitivity LessonsAustralia has launched a new education program for school children to destroy any gender stereotypes that kids have when growing up and to tackle domestic abuse later by training children at a very early age.

The new curriculum is called respectful relationship and it has been mandatory in all schools in the state of Victoria. Students will learn issues related to gender-based violence, male privilege and social inequality between men and women.

The topics covered include pay inequality, sexual orientation, anger management, and why pornography is so bad. There have been complaints against the course. One report said that he gender sensitivity training was at the risk of painting all men as evil and all women as victims.

The new course will present pictures of boys and girls doing household chores to primary school students. Also, pictures of both men and women playing sports, working as receptionists and as firefighters will be shown, to break gender stereotypes.

The course intends to send the message to kids at such a young age that "girls can play football, can be doctors and can be strong". Also, "boys can cry when they are hurt, can be gentle, can be nurses and can mind babies".

High school kids will be trained on terms such as pansexual, cisgender and transsexual. They will be made to understand the concept of male privilege.

Here’s an example of that lessons in the Year 7 and 8 curriculum consist of: "Being born a male, you have advantages - such as being overly represented in the public sphere - and this will be true whether you personally approve or think you are entitled to this privilege."

Male privilege has been described as "automatic, unearned benefits bestowed upon dominant groups" whether on the basis of "gender, sexuality, race or socio-economic class".

Older students of Year 11 and 12 will be taught more complex topics such as "hegemonic masculinity" that "requires boys and men to be heterosexual, tough, athletic and emotionless, and encourages the control and dominance of men over women".

Critics have said that the program is not objective and presents women as universal victims. They said that it does not in any way protect female victims of domestic violence and was nothing more than "taxpayer-funded indoctrination" of children

Jeremy Sammut, of the Centre for Independent Studies said, "The idea behind this programme - that all men are latent abusers by nature of the discourse - is an idea that only cloistered feminist academics could love."

"A lot of evidence suggests that like child abuse, domestic violence is a by-product of social dysfunction: welfare, drugs, family breakdown," he added.

Education Minister James Merlino has come out in support of the program and defended it saying that education is critical to ending the "vicious cycle" of domestic violence.

"This is about teaching our kids to treat everyone with respect and dignity so we can start the cultural change we need in our society to end the scourge of family violence," the minister said.